Western Australian Consolidated Acts

GOLD CORPORATION ACT 1987 - SECT 45

45 .         Title to gold and other residues

                Where — 

            (a)         prior to the coming into operation of the Perth Mint Amendment Act 1986 , any gold, or gold bearing ore or dore, or alloy containing gold was smelted, sampled, assayed, refined or otherwise worked at the premises of the Royal Mint or of The Perth Mint; or

            (b)         on or after the coming into operation of that Act any gold or other precious metal, or ore or dore bearing any gold or other precious metal, or any alloy thereof, or any precious stone or ore bearing any precious stone, was or is smelted, sampled, assayed, refined or otherwise worked at the premises of the Mint,

                any residue, after the normal working procedures have been carried out and the metal or stone so worked has been delivered to or on behalf of the person for whom the work was done, that remained or remains thereafter in the fabric of those premises, vests in the Mint absolutely as though it had been gold purchased in good faith by the Mint.